A new anteater for my collection has arrived from Portual. The small anteater from Britains. Here you see him with his new friends from Hausser Elastolin and VEB Plaho. Roger, thank you very much for these beautiful gift!

I know the large one from Safari...please, what brands are the others, please ?

Thanks!here we go:[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]Yellow: no name; big standing: Safari Ltd; riding the safari: Prior. big in the back: AAA (cast of a real baby).Front: composition,....

Susanne, thank you SO much for the picture of the all the anteaters! That is great. I know I'm supposed to like the Safari, but I just like the Papo and Schleich more. I don't know why people are hard on the Schleich. I think it's a great model.

Susanne, thank you SO much for the picture of the all the anteaters! That is great. I know I'm supposed to like the Safari, but I just like the Papo and Schleich more. I don't know why people are hard on the Schleich. I think it's a great model.

Scott, Schleich anteater is a lovely figure, though, legs are short as usual and face is too wide and light with a excessive focus on it. Worst, the head is not enough streamlined, and although somewhat massive, it is short for an anteater. As well as I see a cow anytime I see Schleich tapir, I also see a dog anytime I see Schleich anteater. And what's the similarity between a dog and the Schleich figure? Just received my Papo, is very nice but I keep preferring Safari. :Though, I Recomend them all!

Susanne, thank you SO much for the picture of the all the anteaters! That is great. I know I'm supposed to like the Safari, but I just like the Papo and Schleich more. I don't know why people are hard on the Schleich. I think it's a great model.

Scott, Schleich anteater is a lovely figure, though, legs are short as usual and face is too wide and light with a excessive focus on it. Worst, the head is not enough streamlined, and although somewhat massive, it is short for an anteater. As well as I see a cow anytime I see Schleich tapir, I also see a dog anytime I see Schleich anteater. And what's the similarity between a dog and the Schleich figure? :scratch:Just received my Papo, is very nice but I keep preferring Safari. :Though, I Recomend them all!

I know exactly what you mean about the problems for Schleich's Anteater figure. It does not accurately reflect the proportions of actual Giant Anteaters. The head especially is definitely not shaped correctly. (It's as if the sculptor thought 'It can't really be that thin and tubelike! I'll make it the way it should look.') But still, I find the figure to be extremely aesthetically pleasing. I guess that, despite the fact that accuracy is typically something upon which I place a lot of weight, it isn't always necessary for me to come to be attached to a model. (Similarly, sometime the most accurate figure of a group is the one I like least.) This isn't the usual case, but it sometimes happens. I really like the Schleich Anteater and the Schleich Hyena, for example, even though I don't think they are the most accurate models.

Over a period my collection has got some nice new members of this fascinating group of critters

Hong-Kong aardwark (a gift from Kosta) , Armadillo from Pfeiffer ( from 1914 according to the seller ), Armadillo from Eikoh, Hong-Kong anteater ( gift from Kosta), the wonderful Mojo-pinecone called Rogerio and an anteater from Pfeiffer ( 1950's).